Bêř

surname · Latin script

Bêř is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Yiddish bear, associated with Issachar. Bêř is also written בער in Hebrew.

  • SISlovenia1 in 34K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 46K
  • PLPoland1 in 103K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bêř itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,300 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
169 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Bêř in other scripts: Hebrew

(measured from records)
BêřLatin(measured from records)
בערBêř in Hebrew(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ber in US United States, PL Poland, DE Germany and Bęr in DZ Algeria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

from Yiddish bear, associated with Issachar

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Russian Surnames

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Bêř is found

(measured from records)

Bêř counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Bêř is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria≈5,300 est.≈1 in 8.9K—Bęr4
FR France≈1,500 est.≈1 in 46K26—5
DE Germany≈730 est.≈1 in 115K—Ber71
US United States4211 in 790K421Ber169
PL Poland3731 in 103K194Ber1
SI Slovenia621 in 34K62—4

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Bêř is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ber, Béř, Bëř

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bêř under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bêř mean, and where does it come from?
from Yiddish bear, associated with Issachar Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and Russian Surnames.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Bêř?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Bêř in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bęr. After it come France, Germany, United States and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Bêř?
In the United States, the national register counted 421 people named Bêř in 2010, about 1 in 790 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bêř”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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